"rapdor" wrote in message
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Any advice or comments on what I should buy to set myself up with an
all-purpose quarantine tank/breeding tank to compliment my 75 US gallon
freshwater community (all small fish) tropical tank would be much
appreciated. For example:

1 Is just a cheap air-pump driven box filter suitable or should it be a
hang-on

The box filter would be fine. In a quarantine tank, you're going to have to
tear it down and steralize after having sick fish in it, so the simpler the
equipment, the better. Keep the box filter, or just the media, in your 75's
filter, make room.


2 What size (my other tank is 75 US gallons, community tank with
small
freshwater tropicals)

Ten gallons should be sufficient, IMO.



3 What about lighting/tank hood

Basic lighting. The standard light that comes in a ten hood should be fine.
Flourescent, not incandescent. Incandescents create heat, making it a little
more difficult to regulatr temp, especially in a small tank.


4 What else do I need to consider, bearing in mind that I want it to be
as multi-functional as possible, ie., I only want to own my large tank,
and
this one other small tank for the various contingencies that arise

Decent electronic heater, (ebo-jager, imo)IME, no substrate, no decorations,
no nothing you're not willing to throw away or steralize. With a 75, and a
ten as quarantine, when you need the tank, siphon ten gallons outa the 75,
pull your box filter media out, slap it into the filter, drop it in, and
you're set.


hth

billy